Oatlands College

What Oatlands College does

Oatlands College is a Voluntary Catholic Secondary School for boys located in Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Founded by the Christian Brothers and now operating under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST), the school delivers the full Irish secondary cycle — Junior Cycle, Transition Year, and Leaving Certificate — to male students in the greater Dublin area. Its stated mission is the religious, moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and social education of students in an atmosphere of Christian care, with enrollment restricted to boys (and families) who respect the ERST Charter. Defined pastoral care, learning support, guidance counselling, and extracurricular programs (rugby, soccer, music, supervised study) round out the educational offering.

The school's operating platform is built on standard third-party educational technology: VSWare for student information management, Athena for behaviour and attendance tracking, Office 365 and SharePoint for staff collaboration, and Easy Payments Plus as the fee-payment portal. The public-facing layer is a Google Workspace-hosted website (oatlands.ie) with admissions, calendar, policy, and newsletter content, supported by an active Twitter/X account (@oatlandscoll). There is no proprietary technology product; the stack is purely operational.

The business model is that of a voluntary-aided Irish secondary school: revenue is derived from a combination of state capitation grants (paid through the Department of Education), voluntary parental contributions and fees collected via the Easy Payments Plus portal, and ancillary fundraising. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is direct enrollment at the single Mount Merrion campus, with a formal annual admissions cycle (the 2026 intake closed 22 October 2025). With 32 employees and a single site, the school is a small, locally-concentrated educational institution rather than a scaling enterprise.

Name

Oatlands College

Legal name

Oatlands College

Website

https://oatlands.net

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Oatlands College is a Voluntary Catholic Secondary School for boys in Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, founded by the Christian Brothers and operated under the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, delivering Junior Cycle, Transition Year, and Leaving Certificate programs to male students in the greater Dublin area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secondary Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Nonsectarian Independent Day Schools (EDAJABAA)

Keywords

• Secondary education
• Catholic schooling
• Junior cycle
• Transition year
• Leaving certificate

Headquarters

HQ city

Mount Merrion

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Tuition and Fee Revenue: The school generates revenue through tuition fees and related educational services. The website provides an online payment portal (Easy Payments Plus) for fee collection. As a Voluntary Catholic Secondary School under ERST trusteeship, the school also receives government funding support for secondary education.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Oatlands College is a Voluntary Catholic Secondary School for boys offering secondary education programs including the Junior Cycle, Transition Year, and Senior Cycle (Leaving Certificate). The school provides religious, moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and social education under the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter. It operates from its Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin campus and accepts applications annually through a formal admissions process.

Product overview

Oatlands College is a Voluntary Catholic Secondary School for boys in Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Founded by the Christian Brothers and now under the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST), the college provides secondary education programs including Junior Cycle, Transition Year, and Leaving Certificate. The school offers various operational platforms for stakeholders including VSWare for student management, Athena for student tracking, Office 365 for staff, and Easy Payments Plus for fee payments. These are internal educational and administrative tools, not standalone product offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Junior Cycle Programme

Quantifiable outcome

• Student won Dublin Regional Oireachtas Essay Competition - demonstrating academic excellence outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST)coreOthersOatlands College is under the Trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST). The school operates in accordance with the religious and educational philosophy of the ERST Charter as set out in its Mission Statement. The school community is inspired by the vision of Edmund Rice, with the central purpose being the education of students under ERST trusteeship.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Blackrock College: Catholic voluntary secondary school for boys in south Dublin, founded by the Holy Ghost Fathers and also under ERST trusteeship. Highly comparable to Oatlands as a direct competitor in the same single-sex Catholic secondary market with similar fee structure and heritage.
• Clongowes Wood College: Catholic boarding secondary school for boys in Co. Kildare under Jesuit trusteeship. Comparable to Oatlands as a fee-paying Catholic boys' secondary school in Ireland with a similar Irish curriculum.
• Gonzaga College: Catholic voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin operating under the Jesuit trust. Directly competes with Oatlands for the same south-Dublin boys' school demographic with a comparable academic and extra-curricular offering.
• Terenure College: Catholic secondary school for boys in Dublin under the Holy Ghost Fathers. Comparable fee-based, single-sex Catholic secondary offering serving an overlapping Dublin market.
• Belvedere College: Catholic secondary school for boys in Dublin run by the Jesuits. Closely comparable to Oatlands as a fee-paying, single-sex Catholic secondary school competing for the same Dublin families.
• St Michael's College: Catholic voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, also under ERST trusteeship. Effectively a direct peer operating in the same regulatory and trust framework as Oatlands.

Others

• Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST): National trust that trustee-governs Oatlands and a network of other Catholic schools across Ireland. Most relevant as the parent/ecosystem entity rather than a competitor, but is the structural anchor for Oatlands' governance and shared resources.

Broad incumbents

• The King's Hospital: Private co-educational boarding and day secondary school in Dublin with a Church of Ireland heritage. Comparable to Oatlands as a fee-paying Dublin secondary school in the same Irish private-school market.
• St Andrew's College: Large private co-educational secondary school in south Dublin. Comparable to Oatlands as a fee-paying Dublin secondary school competing for the same affluent family demographic, though co-ed and non-denominational.
• Wesley College: Private co-educational secondary school in Dublin with a Protestant heritage. Comparable to Oatlands as a fee-paying Dublin secondary school competing for similar family segments, though co-ed and non-Catholic.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OatlandsColl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oatlands-college

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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